Virtualization is the backbone of modern cloud computing, enabling multiple virtual machines to run on a single physical ...

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This excerpt is from the book, Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the Trenches published by Prentice Hall Professional, Oct. 2009, ISBN ...

As virtualization software continues to evolve, so do the options for network specialists, IT managers, CTOs, and CIOs. In order to help make the best decision for your organization, it’s important to ...

Commentary--If you're like most IT managers, your boss probably expect you to do more with less: expand your IT capabilities and infrastructure while doing it with reduced funds, staff and hardware.

If there’s one technology that can greatly improve computing environments of any size, it’s virtualization. By using a single physical server to run many virtual servers, you can decrease operational ...

Hypervisors often get overlooked as a technology in favor of the flashier concept of virtualization, but you can’t get to the fun of virtualization until you understand what a hypervisor does within a ...

Server virtualization has been a real "game changer" for the datacenter and those who administer and manage it. It has provided us with efficiency at a time when we so desperately need it.

VMware's hosted or Type-2 hypervisor has been around for nearly a decade. But has this virtualization platform reached end of life? There has been quite a bit of interesting chatter and a whole lot of ...

Server-virtualization software imposes no constraints on the versions of Windows Server operating system (or Linux) that you place in each virtual machine (although a completely new version of Windows ...